Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
New Hampshire is a 1923 poetry collection by Robert Frost, which won the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. [1]The book included several of Frost's most well-known poems, including "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", [2] "Nothing Gold Can Stay" [3] and "Fire and Ice". [4]
Date of signature in the book predates formal release in publication of the poem. The Gift Outright; The Most of It; Come In; All Revelation [2] A Considerable Speck; The Silken Tent; Happiness Makes Up In Height For What It Lacks In Length; The Subverted Flower; The Lesson for Today; The Discovery of the Madeiras; Of the Stones of the Place
The poem is an expression of Stevens' perspectivism, leading from a relatively objective description of a winter scene to a relatively subjective emotional response (thinking of misery in the sound of the wind), to the final idea that the listener and the world itself are "nothing" apart from these perspectives. Stevens has the world look at ...
The poem opens with the speaker passing by an empty field during a snowstorm around dusk. As the field is covered with snow, the speaker contemplates the blankness and the whiteness of the snow, a snow "with no expression, nothing to express." The speaker then turns his contemplation to the night sky "with their empty spaces / Between stars."
The context in which this poem was written suggests that Emily Brontë attempted to cope with her sister's illness by falling back into the fantasy world they had created together. Brontë describes the snow as a "transient voyager of heaven" and "angel like," suggesting that she sees the snow as coming directly from God. In addition, the fact ...
Longfellow is also directly mentioned with a fictitious poem towards the end of Act I. [8] Lorenz Hart alludes to Longfellow's poem in the title song of the musical On Your Toes: Remember the youth 'mid snow and ice Who bore the banner with the strange device, Excelsior! This motto applies to folks who dwell In Richmond Hill or in New Rochelle,
Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl is a long narrative poem by American poet John Greenleaf Whittier first published in 1866. The poem, presented as a series of stories told by a family amid a snowstorm, was extremely successful and popular in its time. The poem depicts a peaceful return to idealistic domesticity and rural life after the American Civil War.
Snegurochka (diminutive) or Snegurka (Russian: Снегу́рочка (diminutive), Снегу́рка, IPA: [sʲnʲɪˈɡurət͡ɕkə, sʲnʲɪˈɡurkə]), or Snow Maiden, is a Novy God character originating from Russian fairy tales.